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The first rape involved a woman who on July 8 went to Reggie’s Bar in Tigerland and blacked out. Sometime later, she got into a car with three men for a ride home, the affidavit says. She realized something was wrong when the driver refused to turn toward her sister’s house while crossing Bluebonnet Boulevard. The victim got in touch with her sister and father while she was in the car, and one of the men even spoke with the victim’s sister on the victim’s phone while they were driving. Police on Friday did not have information on the other suspects.

Eventually one of the men then stopped the car near the Mississippi River levee, the affidavit says. A backseat passenger then dragged her from the car, and she was raped on a grassy area off the road.

She was found on the morning of July 9 when a passerby eventually noticed her near the roadway, Coppola said.

Almost one year later, on June 8, Garcia-Vasquez gave a woman a ride from East Boyd Drive near Tigerland and raped her on River Road, police say.

On Friday around 2 a.m., police arrested Garcia-Vasquez when a Baton Rouge police detective who investigated the 2013 rape happened to be working extra hours and noticed a dark two-door car similar to a Chevrolet Cavalier passing twice on East Boyd Drive — the street where the June 8 victim said she was picked up, and also very similar to the car seen near Reggie’s Bar in the 2013 rape case. The vehicle’s tail light also was not working, and during a traffic stop, the detective was able to connect more details. Police also found condoms like the ones found from the June 8 rape.

Police later connected his DNA to the two rape investigations. Garcia-Vasquez admitted to the June 8 rape but denied the 2013 rape, Coppola said.

Police have not yet connected Garcia-Vasquez to any other rapes, Coppola said.